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Undergrad Power over Fiber residential application

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Graduate Comparing two formats of the MHD energy equation

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Graduate What is the size of a point? Or, what is a particle?

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High School Does the siren frequency increase gradually as an ambulance approaches?

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Undergrad Why Does the Newfound Planet WASP-17 Orbit Backward?

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Graduate From Cat Paradox to Multiple Worlds: What Gives?

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High School What is the difference between laminar and turbulent flow?

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Undergrad Which branch of physics is the most fundamental one?

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Undergrad Are Physics Formulas Always Approximations?

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Not sure if this belongs here, but if someone would be kind enough

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Undergrad Packing Fraction of Cylinders - Answers to Your Questions

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Graduate Bob Jones University (BS in Physics)

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Glue a thin sheet of copper to a cork?

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Graduate What is delta-correlated Gaussian noise?

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Graduate Where are the velocity extremes in a radial gravitational field?

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High School Dying from rapid depressurization- possible?

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High School Why everything is shaped like a circle?

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Undergrad Combining two decibel values vs dissimilar values

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Where Can I Download Free Science Books?

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Graduate Paradox which questions time travel to the future

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Why does Physics attract crackpots?

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Can Teleportation Solve Our Environmental Problems?

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High School Is an antimatter bomb real or fiction?

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High School Explain the 90 degree rule in Billiards

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Undergrad Can Anything Float in a Superfluid?

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Graduate How was transparent aluminum created using high power X-ray sources?

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High School What exactly is a wave? What is it made out of?

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High School Plumbob creating designs in sand?

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Graduate Anomalies in the Asymmetrical Capacitors for Propulsion Tests

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Time Travelling-Very Intereting Conversation

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Graduate Wave propagation in discrete atomic solids

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High School Strange Radio Reception from TV Speakers: Possible Causes and Solutions

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StackOverflow equivalent for physics?

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Undergrad Sonar & Wave Qs: High-Freq Signals, Resolution & Feasibility

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High School Can the other two cameras provide a better pictuer?

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Undergrad Will Two Identical Spherical Cavities in Free Space Attract or Repel Each Other?

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Help prove something mathematically

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High School Mystery Spot illusion explanation

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Top physicists of all time with respect to h-index

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High School Does the heart pumping and movement of blood affect body weight?

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Undergrad History of Physics: Newton or Later Development?

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Graduate Resonant Frequencies of Coaxial Cylinders

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Undergrad Why does a Bourdon gauge bend if surface area pressure forces balance?

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What is the Brilouine Zone and where can I learn more about it?

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High School Why are there so many different symbols for scientific equations?

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Undergrad Can a nuke crush a volcano's slope?

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High School What Are the Four Fundamental Forces of Nature?

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Physics Research Report: Ugh, No One Would Care Anyway

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Undergrad Why is the concept of amount of substance as a quantity confusing?

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Undergrad If one pound of gold is compressed into diamond, what is its weight?

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Make Explosive: Best Cheap Recipe for Power

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High School Does sending an email or a letter use less energy?

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Pictures show soap bubble bursting

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Graduate Unscientific friends making arguments

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Graduate I'm looking for a solid concise way to

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Undergrad Eliminating noise from Excel Data

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Undergrad Can a 42x zoom camcorder record a 3.5×65.5 inch object at 4500 feet?

  • Max CR
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High School How do vortex coolers work?

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TEW: Lewis Little's Theory of Elementary Waves

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Undergrad Optical-SETI Anomaly: Australian Astronomers Detect Unusual Signal

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Science is great E=mc^(2a+5a-5a+3-2+5-4-2a-2)

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Undergrad How does differential pressure cause a flag to flutter?

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Graduate Air vibrating in a cylindrical cavity

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High School What Is the General Equation of a Parabola and Its Derivation?

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Physics Forums ratings killed every new year

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Undergrad Why Does the Gravity Field Exist?

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High School Become Smarter - Tips for Struggling with Trig & Physics

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High School Does a Fly Crash Into the Windshield When a Car Suddenly Stops?

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Graduate How Do Scientists Approach the Challenges of the Standard Model?

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Undergrad Why does the Parker 61 pen only write rightside up if it uses capillary action?

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Graduate Does the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction Lead to a Steady State or Oscillations?

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Order or Entropy?

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High School Is There a Way to Convert Mass into Charge?

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Undergrad Gravitational pull at the center of the Earth

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High School Why are clouds dark pink at night and white in the morning?

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Undergrad Interesting comment about medical research vs. physics research

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Graduate What does it mean to say that two things are coupled or not decoupled ?

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High School Longitude and Latitude angle at 12M

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Undergrad Searching for Phrases: How to Avoid Keywords

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Undergrad Behavior of Aurora Australis Around A Dark Spot on Composite Image

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High School How to increase camera field of view

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Undergrad Three hole can water jets: why does the middle hole shoot farthest?

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Undergrad Calculating Flow Separation Point

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High School What causes the noise during MRI imaging?

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Graduate LHC Restart in Sept - How Long Before We Get Results?

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High School What is Mersenne's Law and its connection to Pythagoras?

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Incredible Power of Oil: Stick Diamonds to Windows!

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High School Does extracting wind energy slow Earth's rotation?

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High School Can magnetic fields propel a spacecraft through space?

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Undergrad Implausible safety features in Star Trek and sci-fi films

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High School Would east and west have meaning if Earth stopped rotating?

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High School Energy and Matter and Everything else

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High School Can an exercise bike generate enough power to run a TV?

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What is the highest resolution of modern microscopes?

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Graduate Most Mind Blowing Physics statements

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IQ of a Physicist and Other Related Fields

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High School Is flame matter or energy?

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Is Sixty Symbols Effective for Physics Outreach?

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High School How Do You Convert Mmscmd to Mmbtu?

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Undergrad What is the potential for using a conductive flame in audio technology?

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